Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1168
Are Middle Class Protests Fallout from Poverty Alleviation?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 (IPS) - The rise of the "global middle class" is widely attributed to the gradual eradication of extreme poverty in the developing world, even as the United Nations says that millions of people in countries such as India, China and Brazil have graduated from the ranks of the indigent.
Community Theatre Confronts Gender Stereotypes
- Inter Press Service
SINGAPORE, Jul 17 (IPS) - The play opens with a man and his mother waiting impatiently at the dining table in the family home. A woman rushes in after a busy day at the office with takeaway dinner packets, followed by her son and daughter who walk in expecting their mother to serve them a meal.
U.S., U.K. Accused of Ignoring, Facilitating Abuses in Ethiopia
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 17 (IPS) - The U.S. and U.K. foreign assistance offices are being accused of ignoring, mischaracterising or downplaying testimony offered by ethnic communities in Ethiopia who accuse the Addis Ababa government of forcefully evicting them from their lands and violating their human rights in the name of mass development projects.
WHO’s Iraq Birth Defect Study Omits Causation
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 (IPS) - A long-awaited study on congenital birth defects by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Iraq is expected to be very extensive in nature.
Promises to Gas Victims Only 'Hot Air'
- Inter Press Service
MENCHUM DIVISION, Cameroon, Jul 17 (IPS) - Ismaela Muhamadu was six years old when he lost his parents and siblings in a poisonous gas explosion at northern Cameroon's Lake Nyos. The blast killed more than 1,800 people, and 3,000 cattle and wildlife over a 25-km radius.
Brazil Develops “Superfoods” to Fight Hidden Hunger
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 17 (IPS) - In less than 10 years, consumers throughout Brazil will have access to eight biofortified "superfoods" being developed by the country's scientists. A pilot initiative is currently underway in 15 municipalities.
New EU Rules ‘Fail’ Against Shipbreaking Dangers
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Jul 17 (IPS) - Hundreds of European vessels are scrapped under hazardous conditions in South Asia every year. European parliamentarians have approved a new regulation to tackle the problem - but critics say it will have very limited impact.
Stronger Laws to Deter Acid Attacks on Women
- Inter Press Service
KOLKATA, India, Jul 16 (IPS) - Preeti Rathi was just 25 years old when she passed away in a Mumbai hospital exactly a month after a man threw acid on her while she stood waiting on a railway platform.
Measuring CO2 in Green Ecosystems of the Mexican Caribbean
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Jul 16 (IPS) - Jungles, forests, mangroves, swamps and lagoons are natural carbon storehouses or "sinks" in the Caribbean regions of Mexico. But now studies are being conducted to measure their capacity for absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Hamas Strikes Just the Wrong Note
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Jul 16 (IPS) - Mohammed Assaf is on to a winning track with recordings in Dubai and performances scheduled across Arab countries after winning the Arab Idol contest. But the 23-year-old who has become Gaza's pride is virtually disowned by the government in Gaza.
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